Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1884 — A Chance for Inventors. [ARTICLE]

A Chance for Inventors.

The Boston Journal of Chemistry says there is need at the present time of some electrical devices by which easy communication can be had between houses, manufacturing establishments, stores and offices; between dwellings and stables, conservatories, libraries, etc. It is not necessary that words should be transmitted, but signals representing words or specific wants, suited to the needs of parties as they are found in all neighborhoods and towns. What is wanted is something that may be a substitute for the telephone—something which any one can use; but it may be much less extensive in its capabilities. It would seem to be easy to devise apparatus suited to this want, but it needs thought and the exercise of a considerable degree of ingenuity. If this need can be satisfactorily met, it will serve an important end, and do much to break down the oppressive and outrageous monopolies connected with telegraphy and telephony. The latter as a monopoly is fast becoming more unbearable in its rapacious exactions than the telegraph has ever been.